Patterns of profit and investment are changing fast, as people recognise the impossibility of expecting limitless returns from limited resources in our world.
However, the separation of power plants and grid enterprises is the re-division of internal assets within a monopoly electricity system and competitive bidding only changes the distribution pattern of monopoly profits [32].
Still, Daniel Sahl, the head of bilateral relations at the Federation of German Industry, says there is a pattern of Greek "princes" profiting on deals at the expense of the state.
Furthermore, at least in these cases, their pattern of success (and high profits) followed by failure was inevitable.
These incidents share a common theme and a disturbing pattern of big business putting profits over people, while consumers pay the price.
Or one can believe that we have powerful corporations and the political party that serves them following a well-established pattern of deception for the sake of profits.
For 45 years, Block, the country's largest tax preparation company, has harnessed the frustration of taxpayers to deliver to its shareholders a predictable seasonal pattern of results, delivering all of its profits in its busy fourth quarter ending April 30.
The market has fallen into a pattern of rewarding companies that deliver strong profits and outlooks, and punishing those that do not.
The excess of profits earned over the normal profits, the super profit, is $30,000.
Twitter, the social media platform, continued its recent pattern of reporting stronger than expected revenue and profits but lower than expected user numbers.
